The Flexible Packaging Blog
Reviews, trends, and tips covering all things flexible packaging to protect your products and your bottom line.
Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance
By:
David Roberge
August 13th, 2015
The Price is the Price is the Price, unless it's A-La-Carte. Traditionally, people price their product assuming that everyone needs everything. Rarely do we find that all of our customers need the same things. The actual price of a product is dependent on many aspects of the purchase.
Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance | Investment
By:
David Roberge
August 6th, 2015
Until It Is. In today's high-pressure business environment, with fewer people doing more work, we tend to focus only on what's urgent. The time-tested priority matrix and the time-tested risk matrix, when blended together, yeild clear guidance on where we should spend our time.
Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Investment
By:
David Roberge
July 23rd, 2015
Understanding Business Pressures on Purchasers In our business, we get to spend a lot of time working with Purchasing Agents, Buyers, etc. Based on what we see, its a tough job. Here are some of the pressures that our customers are under.
Equipment | Packaging Materials | The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance | Investment
By:
David Roberge
July 16th, 2015
Understanding that different businesses have different cost constraints and working to stay within those bounds to provide the best quality product, service, or equipment is what we do best. All of our customers have cost constraints, and they generally fall into a few areas. The first, and most prevalent, is the pricing pressure from their customers. We have a specific approach to helping you with these pressures.
Equipment | Packaging Materials | Technical Service and Support
By:
David Roberge
June 11th, 2015
...It Shouldn't Be This Hard Spare Parts.. Replacement parts.. When you are in need of either, you can save time and money by leveraging our knowledge and experience (over 60 years of it)! Our team thrives on, and excels at providing the parts that you need for your packaging equipment.. What parts? All of em! For machines that we sell. For machines that we don't sell.
Packaging Materials | Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Plant Performance
By:
Jarrod Dizazzo, President
May 8th, 2015
When you begin a packaging job, you know how much each piece “should” cost you and what your margins “should” be. At the end of the run, after all the labor has been employed, the materials have been used, and the time to correct problems has passed, you take a look to make sure you costed the job correctly. How many times are you surprised at the outcome? More often than not, what you end up spending is a lot more than you projected..